The Americans are not buying the data sources, they have the data sources. Whatever else they are buying is just an addition to what they have. For surveillance purposes location data alone from Google/Apple and/or Meta, Snap, whatever is pure gold, and I’m pretty sure that’s not sold.
Even when buying it - it’s literally digital gold, and probably just as expensive and you would buy american. So you’re spending a metric fuckton of money to buy the dataset and do the same, but worse analysis.
I don’t know how it’s going in France, but Germany hasn’t managed to digitalize anything properly, and even the “flagship” projects are a fucking mess. Even though some of them work (by now), they don’t hold up to any serious quality, proven several times by the CCC for example. Germany would be literally the last I’d trust to build a system like this, unfortunately.
And that’s not starting about the bureaucracy, potential laws that this would breach, and the backlash for ethical reasons.
The Americans are not buying the data sources, they have the data sources. Whatever else they are buying is just an addition to what they have. For surveillance purposes location data alone from Google/Apple and/or Meta, Snap, whatever is pure gold, and I’m pretty sure that’s not sold.
Even when buying it - it’s literally digital gold, and probably just as expensive and you would buy american. So you’re spending a metric fuckton of money to buy the dataset and do the same, but worse analysis.
I don’t know how it’s going in France, but Germany hasn’t managed to digitalize anything properly, and even the “flagship” projects are a fucking mess. Even though some of them work (by now), they don’t hold up to any serious quality, proven several times by the CCC for example. Germany would be literally the last I’d trust to build a system like this, unfortunately.
And that’s not starting about the bureaucracy, potential laws that this would breach, and the backlash for ethical reasons.